Date of publication: April 17, 2008
Source: Media Mouse (Grand Rapids, MI)
On Wednesday, the "Wal-Mart Sweatshop Workers Speaking Tour"--featuring two workers who supply clothing and food sold at Wal-Mart--stopped in West Michigan at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). The West Michigan stop is part of a larger tour of the Midwest that brought two workers--one from Costa Rica and one from Cambodia--to build support for Michigan and Ohio to join the State and Local Government Sweatfree Consortium. The tour focuses on Wal-Mart because they are the biggest retail store in the United States and as such are the largest user of sweatshop labor. Overall, it offered valuable insight into both conditions in sweatshops and some ways in which they can be challenged...